"Hey, baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!"....I'll take you to the tops!

aww sugar...............

This is a GREAT thread. HBWriter, kudos to you for starting it. Mick's spontaneity is indeed a major element of what makes the Stones' music so startlingly alive and magical. Mick's coos and shrieks and moans and growls and whispers and pleas and groans and shouts and whoops and screams and sobs and sighs add immeasurably to the incredible alchemy that makes the Stones better than anybody else, yet people rarely talk about this.

All of these sound effects are the aural equivalent of the countless visual delights (dance moves, facial expressions, etc) that Mick give us when he is performing. Even though Mick's musical judgement can become questionable ("Primitive Cool", anyone?), nobody can even approach his genius as a PERFORMER. I don't mean to fawn, but we are blessed to be living when the greatest performer EVER (past, present, or future) walks among us.

Drew

Drew--you nailed this, better said than I could have put it--if that's fawning, then fawn on

All of Under The Radar but esp The HUH! at 1.20 ....

And the complete control of....

You've been my jewel
I've been your fool
All alooooooong
What will you do?
What will you do
When I'm gggggggonnnne?



ROCKMAN

the last part of ''let it loose''

Jump On Top Of Me.....The Storm....Im' Gonna Drive ....




...........................................................Mick Jagger 1994



ROCKMAN

rooster--agree--exile may be the example, as an album, of mick's soulful ad lib abilities

On IOR--I love that "you know" before "people tell me you are a vulture"

and of course--winter--it just soars

Mick says "like" a lot in that B-side quip.

Like, you know?

like, really?

Well, like, actually, like yes. Like, more so than ever like.

Just heard Bitch on the radio--the ad libs are on beautiful display

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<...singing along to Taylors guitar.> Yes, I agree.

I am always impressed with Jagger's stage awareness during this era and how connected he was with Taylor's playing. It started very early in the '69 tour (e.g., LIV) and continued to the end. Way more than Keith he coaxed, prodded, encouraged, praised and prompted Taylor and was generally connected to the music through Taylor's playing. Pick any show and I can point to numerous examples of something he says that coincides with something Taylor plays. I have not felt that keen Jagger/band connection in ther post Taylor era. It is simply a different band.

Listen to the Brussels TD, particularly the closing minutes. Is everything Jagger says about Taylor? "Keep on doin' that!" It's Jagger and Taylor that drive that brilliant performance to its thrilling close. I wonder how that feels on stage. Do they know when they knock off one of the great performances in band history?

I've always liked the end of Monkey Man...I'm a monkey, man (sounds like he is purging is insides). MMMMmmmonkey Mann...

PMK--what a terrific post--

Speaking of that Brussels performance of TD...I've been thinning out my Stones recordings to clear room on the shelf, removing duplicates and poorer versions, keeping best sources, stuff like that. I have so many versions of the Brussels/Wembley songs! The best recording of that song that I know of is the Nasty Remixes (perhaps also called Nasty Music Remastered). The test is simple: Listen to Taylor's guitar during the closing instrumental. It is more prominent in the mix than on other recordings, but when Taylor joins Keith and plays the well known closing phrase between the second and third performance of that phrase Taylor joins them with a wonderful run of linking notes. A pure spontaneous skillful Taylor touch. If you can clearly hear those notes, you have the best sounding version of that song (and probably of the rest of the songs as well).

And to stay on topic here, listen to Jagger as well. Is he "into" that performance or what?

Nobody has mentioned his growling and yelling at the end of "It's Only Rock'n'Roll" so far, which imho is surpassed only by his performance on "Let It Bleed".

Laugh I Nearly Died has some great stuff from Mick. the way he stetches out "Laugh I nearly di-i-i-i-i-i-i-e-e-d" Its a side to him we haven't heard since Tatoo You (second half).



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'81 Boulder, CO. Folsom Field is'nt as big as other stadiums and they don't have the big colorful screens that cover the speakers. Stage right, in the middle of Mick's walkway is some kinda cargo rope/jungle gym type thing hanging up & during one song Jagger climbed up it & then stuck his legs thru the ropes & hung upside down! Roadies ran on stage worried he might fall but of course he had no trouble with the contraption. I saw both shows and he didn't touch the ropes the other one. It seemed completely spontanious and it was fantastic.

physical spontaneity as well

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'81 Boulder, CO. Folsom Field is'nt as big as other stadiums and they don't have the big colorful screens that cover the speakers. Stage right, in the middle of Mick's walkway is some kinda cargo rope/jungle gym type thing hanging up & during one song Jagger climbed up it & then stuck his legs thru the ropes & hung upside down! Roadies ran on stage worried he might fall but of course he had no trouble with the contraption. I saw both shows and he didn't touch the ropes the other one. It seemed completely spontanious and it was fantastic.

do you remember what song it was during? It would be interesting to know.

Thanks for asking. I really don't remember, but it may have been YCAGWYW. It was during a long instrumental break. I was wondering if anyone else remembers this? Was it the 1st or 2nd show? Wasn't it CLASSIC? I was also wondering if there were any other shows that year in stadiums when they did'nt have the big screens up over the speakers? That was a big part of that tours identity, even making the cover of Still Life. Anyone?

YCAGWYW is a good guess. On that song and Beast Of Burden at the Hampton show he goes up on the air-lift thing.



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Mick's helpin' vocals on Peter Wolf's Nothing But The Wheel...Sounds like it fell of second side of EXILE ....



ROCKMAN

.....i really like it when Mick does country and on Nothing But The Wheel I LOVE his back up vocal...a true gem that is lost on millions.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Slave (unless I missed it)...What is he saying at the break? It sounds like "go bo diddley go". It is so cool. It seems like this would be a simple one to play live and would make good use of the back-up vocalists.

Paint it, black.

"Dance, Dance Little Sssssister..."

And his falsetto "oohh aahhs" in Back To Zero (a most forgettable effort otherwise).



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